Episode 80: The Graniteville train crash

Graniteville, South Carolina, is like a lot of small towns - quiet and filled with hard-working people. It was the quiet that was broken when a moving train struck another train parked on a spur in the early morning hours of January 6, 2005, and it was the hard-working people who suffered when a damaged tanker began leaking deadly chlorine gas into the air. (TW: Discussion of suicide.)

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A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.